Bird Adaptations

Beaks and Feet

Birds have different kinds of beaks

because they eat different things
Which bird has the best beak
for catching and eating fish?

Which has the best for

catching and eating bugs?

Bluebirds catch and

eat bugs

Pelicans catch and

eat fish

What do these birds eat?

Scavengers eat dead animals

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Crested Caracara

Flycatchers have small, pointed beaks

What do they eat?

Western Kingbird

Says Phoebe

Vermillion Flycatcher

Birds with small, pointed beaks eat insects

What do warblers eat?

Wilsons Warbler

Golden-cheeked Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Pine Warbler

Warblers eat insects

Orange-crowned Warbler

Raptors and owls have thick, hooked

beaks for capturing and eating prey

These birds can eat a variety of things

Eastern Meadowlark

Blue Jay

Orchard Oriole

What kind of beak do they have

and what things could they eat?
Northern Mockingbird

Robins have pointed beaks and can eat a

variety of food

What kind of beak do these birds have?

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Pyrrhuloxia

Northern Cardinal

House Finch

Birds with thick beaks eat seeds, insects

and fruit

What kind of beaks do these wading birds have to

catch and eat things from the water?

Yellow-crowned
Night Heron

Roseate Spoonbill

Great Blue Heron

Snowy Egret

White Ibis

These birds have beaks that

help them catch and eat fish,
crayfish, shrimp and other
small creatures in the water

What kind of beak do these ducks have?

The Northern Shoveler

has a large flat beak for
sifting food from the
water

Bird Feet Adaptations

What kind of legs and feet do these birds have?

What are they used for?

What kind of legs and feet

do these birds have?
What are they used for?

What are these beaks and feet used for?

What are these feet used for?

Birds feet are for:

Swimming

perching

catching prey

wading

This is a Golden-cheeked Warbler

Describe its beak

and feet adaptations

Golden-cheeked Warbler
Has small claw-like feet for perching

Has small pointed beak for eating insects

Funding to develop these instructional resources was

provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
contract #409330 and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Section 6 grant TX E-133-R
Photos by Pat Merkord, Chris Merkord , Gil Eckrich

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